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1 Interagency Tech. Working Grp. on Developing, 

Recommending and Assessing Current Indus. & 

Product Classifications for the Emerging 

Bioeconomy, Measuring the Bioeconomy: 

Recommended Revisions to the NAICS and NAPCS 

(Sept. 12, 2023), available at www.usda.gov/sites/ 

default/files/documents/OCE-Measuring-theBioeconomy.pdf. 

our partners in NAICS, will also 

influence the ECPC’s recommendations 

on those proposals. 

In addition, other criteria may affect 

recommendations for adoption. From a 

practical standpoint, industries must be 

of appropriate size. At the national 

level, this is generally not a major 

concern, but there are a variety of 

statistical programs that produce 

industry data at the regional, State, 

metropolitan area, or even county or 

local level. A proposed industry must 

include a sufficient number of 

establishments so that Federal agencies 

can publish industry data without 

disclosing information about the 

operations of individual firms. 

The ability of government agencies to 

classify, collect, and publish data on the 

proposed basis will also be taken into 

account. Proposed changes must be 

such that they can be applied by 

agencies within their normal processing 

operations. Any recommendations for 

change by the ECPC for consideration 

will also take into account the cost of 

making the changes. These costs can be 

considerable and the availability of 

funding to make changes is critical. The 

budgetary environment will be 

considered when the ECPC makes 

recommendations. As mentioned above, 

certain proposals may be more 

adequately addressed through the 

identification and collection of product 

data. 

Proposals for new or revised 

industries should be consistent with the 

production-oriented conceptual 

framework incorporated into the 

principles of NAICS. When formulating 

proposals, please note that an industry 

classification system groups the 

economic activities of producing units, 

which means that the activities of 

similar producing units cannot be 

separated in the industry classification 

system. 

Proposals must include the following 

information: 

(1) Specific economic activities to be 

covered by the proposed industry, the 

proposed industry’s production 

processes, its specialized labor skills, 

and any unique equipment and 

materials used. This detail should 

demonstrate that the proposed industry 

will group establishments with similar 

production processes that are unique 

and clearly separable from the 

production processes of other 

industries. 

(2) Relationship of the proposed 

industry to existing NAICS United 

States 2022 six-digit national industries 

and whether the proposed industry 

would impact trilateral NAICS levels (as 

specified by ‘‘T’’ superscripts in the 

2022 NAICS structure). 

(3) Documentation of the size and 

recent and projected growth of the 

proposed industry in the United States. 

(4) Information about the size and 

importance of the proposed industry in 

Canada and Mexico, if available. 

Proposals will be collected, reviewed, 

and analyzed by the ECPC. As 

necessary, proposals for change will be 

negotiated with our partners in Canada 

and Mexico. When this process is 

complete, OMB will publish a Federal 

Register notice that contains the ECPC 

recommendations for revisions for 

additional public comment prior to a 

final OMB determination of any changes 

to NAICS for 2027. 

III. Improve Measures of Emerging/ 

Innovative Industrial Activity, 

Including the Bioeconomy 

Consistent with Executive Order 

14081, Advancing Biotechnology and 

Biomanufacturing Innovation for a 

Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American 

Bioeconomy, the Interagency Technical 

Working Group on Developing, 

Recommending and Assessing Current 

Industry and Product Classifications for 

the Emerging Bioeconomy submitted a 

report to OMB with recommendations 

for revisions to NAICS for advancing 

measurement in this area.1 In this 

report, the Working Group stated that 

there has been sustained growth and 

diversification in biotechnology, 

biomanufacturing, and the related use of 

biological resources to supplement, and 

in some industries, replace more 

traditional production methods. The 

report also discussed several challenges 

with measuring this part of the 

economy, and included 

recommendations for revisions to both 

the NAICS and NAPCS. As mentioned 

above, especially in this area, some 

proposals may be more adequately 

addressed through the identification 

and collection of product versus 

industry data. 

The ECPC is soliciting public 

comments regarding the 

recommendations included in the 

report, to support development of 

related final ECPC recommendations to 

OMB. In particular, ECPC is interested 

in the following issues: What impact 

might these potential changes to the 

NAICS have on existing industry 

measurements, for example economic 

output and employment, continuity of 

time series measures? What 

methodologies should compilers of 

Federal economic data apply to 

differentiate bioeconomic processes 

from current production processes to 

enable measurement? What potential 

bioeconomy measurement strategies 

might be considered other than 

revisions to and inclusion in the 

NAICS? 

IV. Errors and Omissions in NAICS 

No significant errors or omissions 

have been identified in NAICS 2022. 

Any errors or omissions that are 

identified in NAICS in the future will be 

corrected and posted on the official 

NAICS website at www.census.gov/ 

naics. 

V. Timing for the 2027 NAICS Revision 

Process 

Following this public comment 

period, the ECPC will review the 

comments and develop any proposed 

revisions for the 2027 NAICS. Then 

OMB will publish ECPC’s proposed 

revisions for public comment in a 

subsequent Federal Register Notice. The 

ECPC will then review the comments 

and develop final recommendations to 

the Chief Statistician of the United 

States at OMB on the proposed revisions 

for the 2027 NAICS. OMB will consider 

the final recommendations from the 

ECPC and will publish the updated 

classification for 2027 NAICS in 

calendar year 2026. The NAICS 2027 

will be available on the Census Bureau 

website in January 2027. 

Karin A. Orvis, 

Chief Statistician of the United States. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30060 Filed 12–19–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2024–0172] 

Information Collection: Human 

Performance Test Facility 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed information 

collection; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) invites public 

comment on this proposed information 

collection. The information collection is 

entitled, ‘‘Human Performance Test 

Facility.’’ 

DATES: Submit comments by February 

18, 2025. Comments received after this 


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date will be considered if it is practical 

to do so, but the Commission is able to 

ensure consideration only for comments 

received on or before this date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods; 

however, the NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website: 

• Federal rulemaking website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2024–0172. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• Mail comments to: David Cullison, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer, 

Mail Stop: T–6 A10M, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001. 

For additional direction on obtaining 

information and submitting comments, 

see ‘‘Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments’’ in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Cullison, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

2084; email: Infocollects.Resource@

nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Obtaining Information and 

Submitting Comments 

A. Obtaining Information 

Please refer to Docket ID NRC–2024– 

0172 when contacting the NRC about 

the availability of information for this 

action. You may obtain publicly 

available information related to this 

action by any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2024–0172. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For 

problems with ADAMS, please contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The supporting 

statement is available in ADAMS under 

Accession No. ML24197A213. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

• NRC’s Clearance Officer: A copy of 

the collection of information and related 

instructions may be obtained without 

charge by contacting the NRC’s 

Clearance Officer, David C. Cullison, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer, 

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–2084; email: 

Infocollects.Resource@nrc.gov. 

B. Submitting Comments 

The NRC encourages electronic 

comment submission through the 

Federal rulemaking website (https://

www.regulations.gov). Please include 

Docket ID NRC–2024–0172, in your 

comment submission. 

The NRC cautions you not to include 

identifying or contact information in 

comment submissions that you do not 

want to be publicly disclosed in your 

comment submission. All comment 

submissions are posted at https://

www.regulations.gov and entered into 

ADAMS. Comment submissions are not 

routinely edited to remove identifying 

or contact information. 

If you are requesting or aggregating 

comments from other persons for 

submission to the NRC, then you should 

inform those persons not to include 

identifying or contact information that 

they do not want to be publicly 

disclosed in their comment submission. 

Your request should state that comment 

submissions are not routinely edited to 

remove such information before making 

the comment submissions available to 

the public or entering the comment into 

ADAMS. 

II. Background 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

chapter 35), the NRC is requesting 

public comment on its intention to 

request the OMB’s approval for the 

information collection summarized as 

follows. 

1. The title of the information 

collection: Human Performance Test 

Facility. 

2. OMB approval number: An OMB 

control number has not yet been 

assigned to this proposed information 

collection. 

3. Type of submission: New. 

4. The form number, if applicable: 

Not applicable. 

5. How often the collection is required 

or requested: On occasion. 

6. Who will be required or asked to 

respond: The potential respondent 

universe consists of NRC staff (defined 

as full-time permanent staff and 

management level personnel, licensed 

plant operators, summer interns, and cooperative education students). 

Respondents may be selected to cover a 

broad sample or to include specific 

characteristics (i.e., individual 

differences such as operator experience) 

in order to facilitate research aims. 

7. The estimated number of annual 

responses: 300. 

8. The estimated number of annual 

respondents: 300. 

9. The estimated number of hours 

needed annually to comply with the 

information collection requirement or 

request: 300. 

10. Abstract: The NRC is requesting 

OMB approval of a plan for a generic 

collection of information. The need and 

practicality of the collection can be 

evaluated, but the details of the specific 

individual collections will not be 

known until a later time. In accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, the NRC is seeking public 

comment on approval of data 

collections for the Human Performance 

Test Facility. The purpose of the data 

collections submitted under this generic 

clearance will be to address research 

gaps in human performance and human 

reliability analysis in the nuclear 

domain and contribute to our 

understanding of various cognitive and 

physical elements that facilitate 

interactions with state-of-the-art 

technology and support safe control 

room operation. Research findings from 

these data collections will support 

informational needs of the NRC and 

ensure that our human factors 

engineering guidance documents and 

human risk analysis methods support 

the review and evaluation of ‘‘state-ofthe-art’’ human factors programs. 

III. Specific Requests for Comments 

The NRC is seeking comments that 

address the following questions: 

1. Is the proposed collection of 

information necessary for the NRC to 

properly perform its functions? Does the 

information have practical utility? 

Please explain your answer. 

2. Is the estimate of the burden of the 

information collection accurate? Please 

explain your answer. 

3. Is there a way to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected? 

4. How can the burden of the 

information collection on respondents 

be minimized, including the use of 


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automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology? 

Dated: December 17, 2024. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

David Cullison, 

NRC Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30392 Filed 12–19–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 72–70, 50–373, and 50–374; 

NRC–2024–0205] 

Constellation Energy Generation, LLC; 

LaSalle County Station Units 1 and 2; 

Independent Spent Fuel Storage 

Installation; Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is issuing an 

environmental assessment (EA) and a 

finding of no significant impact (FONSI) 

for an exemption request submitted by 

Constellation Energy Generation, LLC 

(CEG), that would permit LaSalle 

County Station (LSCS) to maintain four 

loaded and to load four 68M multipurpose canister (MPC) with continuous 

basket shims (CBS) in the HI–STORM 

100 Cask System at its LSCS Units 1 and 

2 independent spent fuel storage 

installation (ISFSI) in a storage 

condition where the terms, conditions, 

and specifications in the Certificate of 

Compliance (CoC) No. 1014, 

Amendment No. 8, Revision No. 1, are 

not met. 

DATES: The EA and FONSI referenced in 

this document are available on 

December 20, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2024–0205 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2024–0205. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the ‘‘For Further Information 

Contact’’ section of this document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For 

problems with ADAMS, please contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. For the 

convenience of the reader, instructions 

about obtaining materials referenced in 

this document are provided in the 

‘‘Availability of Documents’’ section. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Martin Ortiz Gonzalez, Office of Nuclear 

Material Safety and Safeguards, U.S. 

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Washington, DC 20555–0001; telephone: 

301–415–3637; email: 

Martin.OrtizGonzalez@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The NRC is reviewing an exemption 

request from CEG, dated September 19, 

2024. CEG is requesting an exemption, 

pursuant to section 72.7 of title 10 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), 

in paragraphs 72.212(a)(2), 72.212(b)(3), 

72.212(b)(5)(i), 72.212(b)(11), and 

72.214 that require CEG to comply with 

the terms, conditions, and specifications 

of the CoC No. 1014, Amendment No. 8, 

Revision No. 1. If approved, the 

exemption would allow CEG to 

maintain four loaded and to load four 

new MPC–68M–CBS in the HI–STORM 

100 Cask System at the LSCS ISFSI in 

a storage condition where the terms, 

conditions, and specifications in the 

CoC No. 1014, Amendment No. 8, 

Revision No. 1, are not met. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Background 

The LSCS site is approximately 75 

miles (mi) (120 kilometers (km)) 

southwest of downtown Chicago, 

Illinois, and approximately 26 mi (42 

km) west of Exelon’s Braidwood Station 

in Braceville, Illinois, and 23 mi (37 km) 

southwest of the Dresden Nuclear Power 

Station near Morris, Illinois. Interstate 

Highway 80 is 8 mi (13 km) north of the 

site. The LSCS site is located in a rural 

and agricultural setting. The town of 

Seneca lies 6 mi (10 km) northeast of 

LSCS. The town of Marseilles lies 7 mi 

(11 km) north-northwest of LSCS. The 

Illinois River is 5 mi (8 km) north of 

LSCS. Unit 1 and Unit 2 began operating 

in 1984. CEG has been storing spent fuel 

in an ISFSI at LSCS under a general 

license as authorized by 10 CFR part 72, 

subpart K, ‘‘General License for Storage 

of Spent Fuel at Power Reactor Sites.’’ 

CEG currently uses the HI–STORM 100 

Cask System under CoC No. 1014, 

Amendment No. 8, Revision No. 1, for 

dry storage of spent nuclear fuel in a 

specific MPC (i.e., MPC–68M) at the 

LSCS ISFSI. 

Description of the Proposed Action 

The CoC is the NRC-approved design 

for each dry cask storage system. The 

proposed action would exempt the 

applicant from the requirements of 10 

CFR 72.212(a)(2), 72.212(b)(3), 

72.212(b)(5)(i), 72.212(b)(11), and 

72.214 only as these requirements 

pertain to the use of the MPC–68M–CBS 

in the HI–STORM 100 Cask System for 

the four already loaded canisters and 

the planned loading of four new 

canisters. The exemption would allow 

CEG to maintain four loaded and to load 

four new MPC–68M–CBS in the HI– 

STORM 100 Cask System at the LSCS 

ISFSI, despite the MPC–68M–CBS in the 

HI–STORM 100 Cask System not being 

in compliance with the terms, 

conditions, and specifications in the 

CoC No. 1014, Amendment No. 8, 

Revision No. 1. 

The HI–STORM 100 Cask System CoC 

provides the requirements, conditions, 

and operating limits necessary for use of 

the system to store spent fuel. Holtec 

International (Holtec), the designer and 

manufacturer of the HI–STORM 100 

Cask System, developed a variant of the 

design with continuous basket shims 

(CBS) for the MPC–68M, known as 

MPC–68M–CBS. Holtec originally 

implemented the CBS variant design 

under the provisions of 10 CFR 72.48, 

which allows licensees to make changes 

to cask designs without a CoC 

amendment under certain conditions 

(listed in 10 CFR 72.48(c)). After 

evaluating the specific changes to the 

cask designs, the NRC determined that 

Holtec erred when it implemented the 

CBS variant design under 10 CFR 72.48, 

as this was not the type of change 

allowed without a CoC amendment. For 

this reason, the NRC issued three 

Severity Level IV violations to Holtec. 

CEG had previously loaded four MPC– 

68M–CBS in the HI–STORM 100 Cask 

System and plans to load four MPC– 

68M–CBS in the HI–STORM 100 Cask 

System beginning in June 2025. This 

exemption considers the storage of the 


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